AppCritical

Enterprise-class Network Performance Management

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AppCritical's hop-by-hop analysis clearly pinpoints the problem spots in the end-to-end path - even in third-party networks and the cloud.

"AppCritical is clear evidence that Apparent Networks understands the current challenges that organizations are facing with today's complex networks. The technology makes AppCritical easy to use and implement. The product itself is so well designed, training is almost not necessary."

- Martin Webb, Manager, Data Networks Operations
Ministry of Management Services
Government of British Columbia

Features

Pre-deployment Assessments - Accurately assesses end-to-end network readiness for new IT initiatives like VoIP, UC and virtualization to ensure smooth rollouts with fewer risks. Allows you to avoid under- or over-investing by understand specific networking requirements in advance.
Extensive Network Monitoring - Observes many network characteristics and behaviors, including jitter, packet loss, packet reordering, utilization, propagation delay, best- and maximum achievable bandwidth, host names and addresses, average and worst RTT, measured and reported MTU, and mean and predictive MOS scores.
Multiple Traffic Formats - Single tool provides coverage for voice, video and data traffic, with format-specific information such as MOS score variations for voice traffic.
Advanced Path Troubleshooting - Identifies the problem and the specific hop at which it's occurring, whether it is inside or outside of your network.
Broad Coverage of Problem Types - Finds many different network problems from Layer 3 down, including duplex conflicts, rate-limiting queues, network congestion, media errors, QoS changes, collision domain violations, MTU conflicts and more.
Network Usage Trend Analyses - Stores and analyzes an unlimited window of network performance data, enabling you to identify usage patterns and accurately project performance requirements for network changes or new application roll-outs.
Interactive Dashboards - Allows easy drill down from enterprise-wide views to metrics on the performance of specific network paths with just a few clicks.
Powerful Performance Reports - Provides clear, easy-to-understand graphics and plain language that communicates end-to-end network performance data. The optional AppCritical Report Server extends reporting capabilities even further.
Software-Only Architecture - Requires no appliances, probes or end-point devices of any kind. That makes deployment fast and easy, even across large, highly distributed networks.
Unique Perspective - Shows dimensions of network performance that are not available in traditional, SNMP-, NetFlow- or IPSLA-based network management systems.
Third-party support - Supports many third party platforms including Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) and Avaya Aura Communications Manager.
BMC Remedy Plug-in - Automatically open tickets in BMC Remedy upon QoS or SLA violations. An integrated tab into BMC Remedy contains actionable diagnostic information for each ticket.
Highly Scalable - To tens of thousands of paths and hundreds of users.
Small footprint - Less than 1kbps of network bandwidth utilized during active monitoring.